Title
The MANIACCatalog Number
102695518Type
AudioDescription
Metropolis discusses events leading to the need for a computer research and utilization program at Los Alamos and the subsequent development of the MANIAC computer there. He provides a history of the MANIAC including problems devised by Fermi, Ulam, von Neumann, Teller, and others to test it.Roughly corresponds to "The MANIAC" in _A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century_, ed. N. Metropolis, J. Howlett, and Gian-Carlo Rota.
Date
1976-06-10Credits
Metropolis, N.Place of Publication
Los Alamos, NM, USIdentifying Numbers
| Other number | #8 | Original tape numbering system |
